Oscar nominee Patricia Arquette passed on a manicure hours before the Academy Awards because she was too busy launching a charity initiative. The Boyhood star spent Oscars morning setting up a new Chideo.com (charity website) challenge for fans keen on spending time with the actress and making the world a better place.
She explains, "You can enter a sweep stakes and go with me on a global mission with one of our projects, GiveLove.org, where we do ecological sanitation work in the neediest communities around the world."

Actress Jessica Chastain has dropped a bombshell - she was a high school drop out before a scholarship funded by the late Robin Williams landed her a place at top arts college Juilliard.
The Interstellar star recently revealed Williams' generosity changed her life, making it possible for her to graduate college. But years before she picked up a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2003 and became a part of the school's fabled Group 32, she was a lazy student with very few goals.
Chastain tells Entertainment Weekly, "Nobody knows this about me, I dropped out of high school. I was not a hard worker. I was a terrible student. Eventually I got my adult diploma, but I did not graduate. And it wasn’t that I just dropped out and never went back - at the end of the year I had too many absences to graduate... I would cut school and sit in my car, reading Shakespeare."
Chastain admitted that because of her lack of interest in regular school subjects, it led her to believe she wasn't smart, so now she urges youngsters in similar positions to pursue their passion in order to achieve excellence.
She continued, "I thought that I wasn't an intelligent person because I did so poorly. There are kids out there that aren't doing well in school and I hope they never think it means they're stupid. It's all about finding where your interest lies and finding what you're good at." Chastain later attended the prestigious Juilliard drama school thanks to a scholarship from the late Robin Williams, and has since gone on to earn two Oscar nominations for 2012's Zero Dark Thirty and 2011's The Help.
Last year (14) she told U.S. news show Entertainment Tonight, "We didn't have a lot of money, and Juilliard is a pretty expensive school. Robin Williams is a very generous Juilliard alumnus, and gives a scholarship every two years to a student, and it pays for everything, and I got it." Unfortunately for Chastain she never got the chance to thank Williams personally before his untimely death last year (14).

Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's daughter Tallulah has opened up about the issues which prompted her to seek rehab treatment last year (14), revealing an old photo of herself made her think she was "hideous".
The 20 year old checked into a clinic in July to deal with reported alcohol and drug abuse problems, and Willis now reveals her body image issues led to her problems.
In a candid new interview with Teen Vogue she explains, "A switch flipped. I was in a New York hotel room when I was 13... looking at a photo of myself online. I broke down in tears as I started to read the comments.
"I thought, 'I am a hideous, disgusting-looking person. I might be nice and I might be kind, but I'm a really unattractive human being'. It wasn't about the anonymous cyberbullies - I became my own worst critic."
Willis explains her issues grew into depression and her older sister, Scout, eventually convinced her to seek treatment.
She continues, "In college the depression became overwhelming. I didn't sleep or want to talk to anyone, nothing seemed to have a point, the world lost its color and food lost its taste. I was so removed from my body and from my mind that it was like I was living in a cardboard replica of what life should be.
"(Scout) forced me to see what I was doing. I knew I needed to go take care of myself."
Tallulah spent 45 days in treatment and is now sober, explaining, "I'm now 20 years old, and I can say that I'm getting to that place where I'm starting to feel OK with myself, bit by bit. It's not night and day - it's not like now I completely love myself and I have no problems. That isn't how it works. But there are the starting points of that, and that's really exciting. I'm growing every day and breaking old patterns."

Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye To Language has been named the Best Picture of 2014 by officials at the U.S. National Society of Film Critics. The 3D movie, starring French actress Heloise Godet as a married woman who is brought together with her lover by a stray dog, narrowly beat Richard Linklater's Boyhood to the top prize by just one point.
It wasn't all bad for Boyhood - Linklater claimed the Best Director title, while Patricia Arquette was declared Best Supporting Actress for her role in the coming-of-age drama, which was filmed over the course of 12 years.
Meanwhile, biopic Mr. Turner was another double winner, with Timothy Spall honoured as Best Actor for his portrayal of British painter J.M.W. Turner, a day after claiming the same accolade at the Capri, Hollywood International Film Festival in Italy. The movie also earned the award for Best Cinematography.
French beauty Marion Cotillard was named Best Actress for Two Days, One Night and Whiplash's J.K. Simmons won the critics' vote for Best Supporting Actor.
Wes Anderson landed Best Screenplay for The Grand Budapest Hotel and Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour emerged as Best Non-Fiction Film at the National Society of Film Critics' 49th annual awards, which took place on Saturday (03Jan15) in New York.

Actresses Rosario Dawson and Jenny Slate have locked lips onscreen as part of a new video series, called 9 Kisses. The stars are showcased in the New York Times Magazine's feature, which pairs 18 of the year's best actors in nine different scenes that lead up to a kiss.
Dawson and Slate's scenario takes place in the back of a convertible, as they count down the seconds until the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve. They then kiss and playfully embrace each other.
British actors David Oyelowo and Timothy Spall also share a same-sex kiss during an arm wrestling match. Spall plants a smooch on Oyelowo to distract him and win the power challenge.
Other duos who agreed to lock lips for the publication's Great Performers issue include Benedict Cumberbatch and Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern and Steve Carell, Shailene Woodley and Jack O'Connell, Kristen Stewart and Chadwick Boseman, Patricia Arquette and Jason Schwartzman, Julianne Moore and John Lithgow, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Miles Teller.

Rappers Macklemore and Q-Tip joined peaceful protests taking place across the U.S. on Monday night (24Nov14) to condemn the decision not to prosecute a police officer who killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri in August (14) and a jury decided on Monday that no charges should be brought against the cop. The ruling sparked outrage across the U.S. and a protest in Ferguson descended into violence and chaos.
A number of civil demonstrations took place in major cities across the country and the rappers decided to get involved.
Macklemore, real name Ben Haggerty, joined campaigners in his hometown Seattle, Washington and TV footage from local station King5 News shows the demonstrators chanting "Don't shoot" with their hands raised. When asked why he got involved, Haggerty replies, "Solidarity - it's about Mike Brown, it's not about me."
A Tribe Called Quest frontman Q-Tip used Twitter.com to discover the location of New York protesters and was later caught on camera leading chants of "Hands up don't shoot" and "Whose streets? Our streets" with campaigners.
Many celebrities took to their Twitter.com accounts on Monday night to condemn the ruling and to implore Ferguson residents to protest peacefully.

Richard Linklater's acclaimed movie Boyhood has landed four nominations for the 2014 Gotham Independent Film Awards including a Best Feature nod. The drama, which took the director 12 years to complete and stars Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette will compete against Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Love is Strange and Under The Skin in the top category.
Hawke has also scored a Best Actor nomination for his role in the film, alongside Bill Hader for The Skeleton Twins, A Most Violent Year's Oscar Isaac, Michael Keaton for Birdman and Miles Teller for Whiplash, while Arquette is up against Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Beyond the Lights), Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Under the Skin's Scarlett Johansson and Mia Wasikowska (Tracks) in the Best Actress category.
Nightcrawler's Riz Ahmed, Blue Ruin's Macon Blair, Boyhood's Ellar Coltrane, Wish I Was Here's Joey King, Obvious Child's Jenny Slate and Dear White People's Tessa Thompson will battle it out for Breakthrough Actor.
The prizegiving ceremony will take place at Cipriani Wall Street in New York on 1 December (14). Actress Tilda Swinton and Foxcatcher director Bennett Miller with be honoured with special tributes at the event.

Troubled actress Amanda Bynes has been banned from top Manhattan department store Barneys New York after she was allegedly caught stealing a hat during a visit on Wednesday (08Oct14).
The Hairspray star was detained by security guards after she reportedly attempted to walk out of the store without paying for a $200 hat she had placed on her head.
According to TMZ.com, Bynes told the guards she didn't mean to steal anything and had grabbed the hat in a bid to disguise herself after being chased by fans inside Barneys. Police were called to the scene, but the actress had already been allowed to leave by the time cops arrived.
However, the 28 year old won't be welcome back at the store anytime soon - she had to sign a no-trespass agreement before security officials agreed to let her walk.
The incident took place just two days after Bynes was accused of lashing out at a fan while partying at a nightclub in the Big Apple on Monday (06Oct14). Reports suggest the embattled star lost her temper after realising she was being photographed by curious revellers.
Bynes, whose erratic behaviour last year (13) led to lengthy stint in rehab, returned to Manhattan last week (ends03Oct14), days after she was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs in California last month (Sep14).

Victoria Beckham is set to receive an award for her charity work at Eva Longoria's Global Gift Gala.
The former Spice Girls star will be handed the Global Gift Philanthopeneur Award in recognition of her work for charities such as Mothers2mothers, Save the Children and Born Free Africa. Recipients of the prize are said to have shown "commitment, dedication and achievement as a world-renowned entrepreneur and philanthropist."
Beckham says in a statement, "I am very much looking forward to returning to The Global Gift Gala to support my good friend Eva Longoria. It is also a great honor to be receiving the Global Gift Philanthropeneur Award at this special event". Longoria, who chairs the event annually, adds, "(It is) a huge pleasure to honor my dear friend, Victoria to celebrate her outstanding charitable work".
The news comes just days after Beckham gave an impassioned speech on AIDS in Africa at the United Nations as part of her role as a Global Goodwill Ambassador. The event will take place in London in November (14).

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British royal Prince Harry rang in his 30th birthday with a black tie dinner party and a performance from pop star Ellie Goulding.
The party took place at Clarence House, the London home of Harry's father Charles, Prince of Wales, on Wednesday (17Sep14) night, two days after he hit the milestone on Monday (15Sep14). The birthday boy drove himself to the venue, while guests were seen arriving in tuxedos and evening gowns. Goulding, who sang at the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding, is good friends with Harry and is reported to have performed a number of her hits at the party.
Vanity Fair reports guests dined on Harry's favourite foods - beef wellington and fish pie, with Eton mess for dessert. Prince Charles, who missed the party as he is on vacation in Scotland, is said to have sent crates of Champagne for the soiree. The party was originally planned to take place at Kensington Palace, where Harry lives with his brother Prince William and sister-in-law Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, but was postponed due to the pregnant duchess' severe morning sickness.
The celebrations come amid reports the young prince has reunited with his ex-girlfriend, socialite Cressida Bonas, after they were spotted together on a cinema trip to see Cameron Diaz's new comedy Sex Tape on Tuesday (16Sep14).